Lose weight without working out?

People are definitely built different. My sister is 5'6 and 135 lbs. Healthy weight. But still wears a size 9-10 because of her hips. It runs in the family. For me i dont think a size 10 is overweight and i think its healthy. Everyone has different ideals of healthy i guess. And yes, i also want to look good (to me) in clothes and i think i look best around there. To each their own. If you want to be a size 2, go for it. Like i said, i don't. I also dont want to spend time lifting weights. I have 2 babies at home and we go walking every day or run around the park. When my husband comes home from work i would rather spend time with my family in the evening than lift weights.

That's a muscle build difference though, not bone structure. I'm 5'3 and 134lbs but I usually wear a 2 and sometimes 4s. So it's not that your sister is built so differently than other women, she just has a higher body fat %.

It's great that you feel comfortable around there though. I was just wondering cause it didn't make sense to me, but its a little more clear now.

Ehhhh, my sister has very little body fat on her. Bone structure definitely is different among women. But we will have to agree to disagree my friend.

Body weight distribution also plays a role in someone's clothing size. If you have a big butt and hips you might need a larger skirt or trouser size but still have an overall healthy body fat percentage.

I've found that just fitting in time for walking (I walk about 4-5mph, not the laid back sauntering) is helping me. Granted I've not lost much weight yet, but I've found that watching my calories, and walking a couple of miles a day (it sounds like a lot, but I have to walk 2 miles from the train station to work and back each day and then now walk the mile and a bit home from my train station, it soon racks up) has been a very effective way of incorporating pretty effortless exercise into my daily routine, and even with "maintain" calories I've been gently dropping about 1lb per week.

I want to see where just doing that and maybe having 500 or so calories per day left over will get me, before I start ramping up the exercise. I'm gonna look at adding a little bit of weights exercise and something like stomach crunches too to try and tone.

You will most definately lose weight if you dont work out.
Most will be fat but a great portion will be lean mass.

This is where skinny-fat is born so dont be stupid.

Lift heavy weights 3 times a week to maintain lean mass and enjoy the fat loss....

Or....

Become a smaller version of your former fat self.

This.

I lost almost 60 pounds without doing any exercise other than walking and sex :]
However, that wasn't the best idea in the world. Yes, I am smaller. I weigh more than I did in high school, am in the same size jeans, but my body looks completely different. I am a smaller size, but still carry my fat in all the places I always have. As well, I still have a once huge tummy, that's not small and slightly saggy because I didn't do ANY muscle toning while losing the weight. I'm now trying my balls off to fix what I messed up.
Just my two cents..